Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today the big-time games and the best pros are well-known at every wide spot in the road that boasts a TV receiver. And television has done more than merely educate the fan; it has improved the player. Babe Ruth may have been a hero to kids who never saw the inside of Yankee Stadium, but most of those kids never saw the Babe. Today, youngsters anywhere in the U.S. can see their heroes, watch them play, and copy their style. "Television," says University of Florida Football Coach Ray Graves, "is the best teaching aid any coach could have...
...ROAD. Audrey Hepburn is surprisingly good as a Virginia Woolf-cub, but Albert Finney is curiously unsympathetic as her husband in a union that keeps going on strike...
...General William Westmoreland to take overall control of the pacification effort. The move will enable the U.S. to coordinate troop movements so that its forces can both fight the enemy and help give protection to the pacification workers, who perform such vital tasks as well digging and road and school construction. So seriously do the Viet Cong take the new effort that they now promise that any Communist who kills a pacification worker will be awarded the same honors as if he had killed an American soldier...
...massive timber gate and electrified barbed-wire fence block the road between Yugoslavia and Albania-respectively, the most accessible and least accessible nations in the Communist world today. Armed guards on the Albanian side open the gate for authorized visitors, then bolt it behind them with a heavy padlock. Last week Roland Flamini of TIME's Vienna bureau, traveling as a "businessman" on a British passport, flew to Dubrovnik in Yugoslavia, where he joined a guided tour that took him to Albania for a two-day visit. His report...
...there he did his best reporting. His words wept at the barbarism of battle. "The com pany had gone on [toward Teruel] and this was the phase where the dead did not rate stretchers, so we lifted him, still limp and warm, to the side of the road and left him with his serious waxen face where tanks would not bother him now nor anything else and went on into town." A wounded Loyalist soldier had a "face that looked like some hill that had been fought over in muddy weather and then baked in the sun." Hemingway reported...